In your nor'easterly Thursday media column: The Daily's grim prospects, gritty Twitty New York City, newspapers will die, more awards news than is called for, and Arianna Huffington's latest outrage.

A new study of iPad users has some information about The Daily that may be of interest to News Corp: "the perception among those with the greatest interest in news that The Daily's content is lacking [and] that superior content is available elsewhere online for free." Hmm, interesting.

The future of newspapers: a grim and unending downward spiral, barring a totally new business model. Read all about it.

Just by giving some dumb speech at a dinner, Arianna Huffington helped raise almost $100K for the student newspaper at Columbia. Why doesn't Arianna Huffington care enough about the starving children of Eritrea to raise $100K for them? World's greatest monster.